DDoS Attacks Intensify in 2020 — Driven in Part by COVID-19 and 5G
Cybercriminals had a busy year in 2020, with rapidly increasing numbers of distributed denial of service (DDoS) weapons, widespread botnet activity, and some of...
Protecting the COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Chain from ‘Cold’-hearted Phishers
Recently, the world learned about a cyber-espionage attempt focused on the international vaccine supply chain. The threat was leveled as a precisely targeted phishing...
How Internet Scams Persist in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The more technology advances, the more sophisticated the methods that fraudsters employ to cheat people out of their hard-earned money. And it’s only gotten...
Minimize COVID-19 Workplace Disruptions, With Help from CISA
COVID-19 has disrupted today’s workplace for the foreseeable future. Beginning in mid-March 2020, employees transitioned in mass from their onsite offices to a variety...
Beware! Fake COVID-19 Vaccines Circulating on Dark Web
As the world begins preparations to deploy a vaccine for the Coronavirus, law enforcement authorities in the U.K. are warning about imposter vaccine versions...
COVID Vaccine Frontrunner AstraZeneca Targeted by Suspected North Korean Threat Actors
According to Reuters, suspected North Korean threat actors have carried out targeted cyberattacks against COVID vaccine frontrunner, AstraZeneca, by means of phishing links disguised...
1 in 4 Cyberattacks Handled by U.K.’s NCSC Were Related to COVID-19
Over one in four security incidents handled by the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) last year were COVID-19 related cyberthreats. In its annual...
Dr. Reddy’s Lab Attacked Days After India Approves Russia’s COVID-19 Vaccine Trial
Indian pharmaceutical company Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd. (DRL) was forced to shut down its operations temporarily after a cyberattack hit its data center services,...
Q3 2020: COVID-19 still Top Trending
Even into the third quarter of 2020, organizations and enterprises continue to be plagued by ransomware and phishing attacks with subject lines on COVID-19....
How COVID-19 Impacted IT-OT Security
According to a research from security firm Claroty, most of the industrial enterprises suffer an increase in cyberattacks since the pandemic began. The study,...
